Seven Significant Trends Impacting Face-To-Face Meetings October 28, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Step into any public venue today and you’ll see a variety of technology tools in use. Yet most of our face to face meetings still do not reflect the realities of our time. The Horizon Report 2010 examines key trends that will impact a variety of global sectors in the coming five years. These … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conferences, event technology, meeting, meeting industry trends, meeting planner
Unleash Your Conference Participants To Become WOM Influencers October 22, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Here is the slide deck from my recent presentation for Daxko Webinar Series on association and conference influencers. Enjoy! Unleash Your Conference Participants To Become WOM Influencers View more presentations from Jeff Hurt. Additional statistics and facts mentioned during webinar. United Breaks Guitars video received 25,000 views in the first 24 hours it was uploaded in … [Read more…] Filed Under: Attendance Marketing Tagged With: , conferences, engagement, event marketing, influence, influencers, Social Media, social networking, WOM
Is Your Conference Guilty Of Incestuous Inbreeding Or Speaker Vanity Publishing? October 21, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Your Conference Is Like Vanity Press Are you charging speakers a full or discounted registration fee to present at your conference? Perhaps they must cover their own travel, lodging and expenses to attend your conference in addition to spending time to develop their presentation. And pay a registration fee. Does your conference do that? If … [Read more…] Filed Under: Ramblings Tagged With: , conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, speaker, Speaker Emerging Practices
Raining On Your Presentation Parade: Facts Do Not Persuade October 20, 2010 by Jeff Hurt It felt like a scene from Groundhog Day. I was stuck in a time warp loop. Presenter after presenter after presenter started with the same phrase, “I have no financial conflict of interest to disclose.” Then each one launched into a diatribe of data, diagrams, facts and research. Dark, boring PowerPoint slides flashed before my … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, presentation strategies, speaker, Speaker Emerging Practices
Nine Essentials To Keep Your Presentation From Becoming A Corpse October 19, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Presentations are the economy of most conferences and business today. Yet most presentations are boring. A majority of them are just uninteresting. They lack humanness, life, passion and emotional connections. Today, many conference participants feel trapped by a parade of monotonous, dreary, insipid presentations. It doesn’t take long to recognize a corpse. It takes even … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, engagement, presentation strategies, professional development, speaker, Speaker Emerging Practices
In A Sea Of Sameness Is Your Conference Wearing Camo? October 13, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Did you happen to see the following string of tweets started by social media community manager Amber Naslund? Pointless Bland Conferences I don’t know which conference Naslund was talking about. It obviously struck a chord with several people. Unfortunately, this is not new to many conference participants. Educator Harold Jarche talked about The Conference Rut … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conferences, engagement, meeting, meeting planner
Combating Conference Information Indigestion And Filter Failure October 12, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Information Indigestion. You can find it in the new book of conference diseases. Information indigestion is a symptom of the conference organizer’s inability to filter unnecessary topics from the conference agenda. It is a real dis-ease to conference participants. And the culprit is the conference content organizer. One of the biggest challenges facing meeting professionals … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference filter, conferences, content, Education & Adult Learning, Information Indigestion, meeting
How The Billboard Effect Influences Your Tradeshow October 11, 2010 by Dave Lutz About a year ago, I learned about a term used in the hotel industry known as “The Billboard Effect.” Defining The Billboard Effect Chris Anderson Ph.D., assistant professor at Cornell University, conducted a study on the impact of hotel reservations for hotels with or without a presence on Expedia. During the study, four hotels were … [Read more…] Filed Under: Sponsorship & Exhibits Tagged With: , Billboard Effect, conferences, tradeshow, tradeshow best practices
I Can’t Get No [Conference] Satisfaction October 8, 2010 by Jeff Hurt I can’t get no conference satisfaction, I can’t get no conference satisfaction, ‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try. I can’t get no, I can’t get no. When I’m sittin’ in your session and a man comes on the stage he’s tellin’ me more and more about some useless information … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conferences, event, loyal, loyalty, meeting, satisfaction, satisfied
Do You Want Satisfied Conference Attendees Or Loyal Attendees? October 7, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Do you want a satisfied spouse or a loyal spouse? Think about that. Which one is it? I don’t know about you but I want a satisfied and loyal spouse! Now, do you want satisfied customers or loyal customers? Ok, committed relationships and marriages are not the best analogy for business relationships. Marriages are one-to-one … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conferences, event, loyal, loyalty, satisfaction, satisfied
